The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation
“Is the unruly woman masker still relevant?” This question posed by Xavier University dean and professor Kim Vaz-Deville speaks to
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Medgar Evers’s Legacy of Organizing in Mississippi
Although Medgar Evers is one of the most widely recognized figures of the Civil Rights Movement, many people do not
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Race, Shock, and Social Protest: An Interview with Qiana Whitted
This interview is derived from a conversation between Julian Chambliss and Qiana Whitted about her new book EC Comics: Race, Shock,
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We Live for the We: A New Book on the Political Power of Black Motherhood
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Making ‘A Nation Within A Nation’: An Interview with Komozi Woodard
*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within
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